Charles Jaco
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Charles Jaco is an American Liberal journalist and author, best known for his coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait (1990) and Gulf War I (1991). Jaco was born August 21, 1950 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He graduated from The University of Chicago (1973), and received a Master's degree from Columbia University (1976). In 1976, he began his broadcast career with WXRT radio in Chicago, Illinois.
He worked for NBC Network Radio from 1979 until 1988, where he won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1980 for a radio documentary, The Halleleujah Caucus, which was among the first examinations of the growing political power of Christian conservatives in the United States. In 1987, he was badly beaten by the security forces of Panamanian dictator General Manuel Antonio Noriega.
In late 1988, he became a correspondent for Cable News Network, where he was best known for his live dispatches for CNN during the First Persian Gulf War (January - March, 1991).
He authored Dead Air, a novel about the first Gulf War, and Live Shot, a novel set in Cuba. In 2002, he authored The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gulf War, and in 2003 co-authored The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Politics of Oil. In 2003 he became a reporter and anchor for KTVI television in St. Louis, Missouri.
